[pulseaudio-discuss] Sound Volume Setting At Login

[Weedy]

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Tanu Kaskinen <tanu.kaskinen at linux.intel.com
> wrote:

> On Sat, 2013-11-02 at 16:57 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> > On 10/25/2013 07:19 AM, Arun Raghavan wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 19:23 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> > >> On 10/12/2013 07:37 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> Hey all,
> > >>>
> > >>> When I log on my sound level is set at about 35%.  I have to use the
> > >>> sound preferences to turn the sound level up every time I log in.
> > >>>
> > >>> Other users on this same system do not have this issue.  When they
> log
> > >>> in their volume is set at 100%.
> > >>>
> > >>> This leads me to believe that there must be something in my local
> > >>> settings that is turning down my sound volume settings.
> > >>>
> > >>> Does anyone have a clue were the config file might be that is causing
> > >>> this to happen to me and not to others?  Maybe it's not located in my
> > >>> home because I've searched for it but I've come up empty.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> It has occured to me that I didn't include any information about my
> > >> system.  Maybe this will help one of you to find an answer to my
> problem.
> > >>
> > >> CentOS release 6.4 (Final)
> > >>
> > >> Linux mushroom.patch 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.i686 #1 SMP Wed Aug 28
> 14:27:42
> > >> UTC 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> > >>
> > >> [mlapier at mushroom ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i pulse
> > >> alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.21-3.el6.i686
> > >> pulseaudio-utils-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686
> > >> pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686
> > >> pulseaudio-libs-zeroconf-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686
> > >> pulseaudio-libs-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686
> > >> pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686
> > >> pulseaudio-libs-devel-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686
> > >> pulseaudio-gdm-hooks-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686
> > >> pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686
> > >> pulseaudio-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686
> > >> [mlapier at mushroom ~]$
> > >
> > > Wow, those are old versions of PulseAudio indeed. Don't suppose you can
> > > move to something newer?
> > >
> > > A few options:
> > >
> > > 1. Enable verbose logging (log-level = debug in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf)
> > > and see what is changing the volume
> > >
> > > 2. Wipe out ~/.pulse (which will remove all your settings) and see if
> > > that “fixes” it
> > >
> > > -- Arun
> > >
> >
> > I tried the possible solutions suggested by Arun but the effort was not
> > successful.
> >
> > I tried to give it a file in my home,
> > log-target = /home/mlapier/.pulse/log,
> > but it was not happy with that.  I left it at log-target = auto.  Where
> > does the log file live?
>
> The "auto" target uses syslog, when pulseaudio is not run from an
> interactive shell (otherwise "auto" uses stderr).
>
> Syslog has the problem that it ignores debug level messages (at least on
> some systems, I'd guess it's the default behaviour). Syslog can probably
> be configured to not ignore them, but I don't know how to do that.
>

destination _syslog { file("/var/log/syslog"); };
filter f_syslog { not facility(authpriv, mail); };
log { source(src); filter(f_syslog); destination(_syslog); };
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